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The planet, called Corot-7b, was detected by French astronomers in 2009. Credit: ESO
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The near-Earth object known as 2010 AL30 appears as a spot against the background streaks of stars in this image from the Skylive-Grove Creek Observatory in Australia. E. Guido and G. Sostero / AFAM / CARA
Bones and pottery inside one of the tomb shafts. Images courtesy the SCA
Traffic at Stonehenge has put Britain's most famous prehistoric monument on a list of the world's most threatened sites. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett /Reuters
Mirror image: neurons in the brain begin to clone after reaching aSubatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or "spooky action at a distance", could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory.
Previous experiments have shown that the electrical activity of neurons in separate parts of the brain can oscillate simultaneously at the same frequency – a process known as phase locking
. The frequency seems to be a signature that marks out neurons working on the same task, allowing them to identify each other.
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New research suggests that certain adaptations that once benefited humans may now be helping such ailments persist in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- advancements in modern culture and medicine. (Credit: iStockphoto/Mads Abildgaard)
Running shoes may put more strain on your joints than running barefoot or even walking in high heels, a recent study suggests. Credit: stockxpert
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Power from renewable sources such as wind farms will be important to fight climate change. Nevertheless, the study says that even if we do everything possible to reduce emissions between now and 2050, keeping overall temperature increases below 2ºC is "barely feasible". Credit: iStockphotoWASHINGTON DC: World leaders should focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible over the next 40 years to avoid perilous warming, says a new study.
In the first research of its kind, analysts used a detailed energy system model to analyse the relationship between emissions levels in 2050 and chances of achieving end-of-century targets of 2 to 3ºC above the pre-industrial average.
The Nexus One's 5-megapixel camera also has an LED-powered flash.
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The great advantage of wind is that it is a free fuel, unlike gas, coal or oil. Britain is also a windy place, making supply relatively secure. GETTY IMAGES
Cepheus B, a Molecular Hydrogen Cloud Try modeling the molecular hydrogen in this cloud with a conventional computer. Go ahead, we'll wait. NASA 
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Rose-ringed Parakeet is currently expanding its range across Western Europe. It can be a serious agricultural pest and competes with native birds for nesting cavities. Credit: Oregon State University
Google has been accused of censoring offensive searches relating to Islam
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From BBC News:The long-distance scientific recordings of the blast wave from the first hydrogen bomb test have been rediscovered in a formerly classified safe at Columbia University.
On November 1, 1952, physicists created the second fusion explosion the solar system has ever known. The first occurred around 4.5 billion years ago and ignited the ongoing fusion reaction in the sun. The second, the Ivy Mike experiment, was shorter lived and detonated on an atoll in the South Pacific. This 10-megaton blast was five times more powerful than all the explosives used in World War II combined, including the nuclear-fission bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Artist's conception of the dusty disk thought to eclipse the star Epsilon Aurigae. Illustration by Nico Camargo and courtesy www.citizensky.org
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In the supernova remnant W49B, Suzaku found another fossil fireball. It detected X-rays produced when heavily ionized iron atoms recapture an electron. This view combines infrared images from the ground (red, green) with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue). (Credit: JAXA/NASA/Suzaku, Tom Bash and John Fox/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF)
Nearly 85 percent of people who suffer migraine headaches are extremely sensitive to light, a condition known as photophobia. Scientists have now found the nerves involved in this light sensitivity, pointing to future possible migraine treatments. Image credit: stockxpert
Google integrated two of its news experiments, Fast Flip and Living Stories,Living Stories, a project developed with the New York Times and the Washington Post, is on the upper right next to Top Stories, while Fast Flip (picture above) is right down at the bottom of the page. Both experiments should now see their audiences widen considerably.
"Encouraged by the positive feedback we've received from users and partners, we decided to expose the service to more potential readers by integrating it with the US English version of Google News," software engineers Jack Hebert, Matthew Watson and Corrie Scalisi wrote about Fast Flip on the Google news blog.
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Going digital: The Amazon Kindle (far left), 2Iriver Story (top left), Cool-er eReader, Sony Reader Pocket Edition (top right), Cybook Opus (bottom right), Sony Reader Touch Edition
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Image: This mosaic of Alexander the Great shows the king wearing linothorax -- an armor made from laminated linen. Martin Beckmann
Photo: The printed word, from Gutenberg's Bible to the Kindle. (CBS/AP)
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An Egyptian antiquities worker walks past a newly discovered ancient site in this June 6, 2002 file photo. New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Sunday. REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby/Files
A few months ago, President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign to strengthen competency in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. During this event, some students were invited to demonstrate their robot they built as part of the 2009 FIRST Robotics competition. One of those students, Steven Harris, commented on the importance of high school robotics teams and his experience with his own team:
Read more ....“I have been a part of FIRST Robotics for eight years. My first exposure to FIRST Robotics was in fourth grade. On Saturdays, when my brother was a member of the team at Oakton High School, I got to go to the team meetings because my father was a parent mentor for the team, helping the members of the team build and design the robots…
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This artist's impression shows sunrise over CoRoT-7b, the smallest-known exoplanet. The world is about 70 percent larger than Earth. Now, a team led by Brian Jackson at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center finds that the planet may be the rocky remains of a gas giant planet whose atmosphere was evaporated by close proximity to the star. (Credit: ESO/L. Calçada)
Male cleaner fish will punish females when the females misbehave at mealtime, a new study finds. Here, the cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus cleans the larger N. nigrosis. Credit: Richard Smith.
Jerry Skene, right, of Chantilly Robotics mentors a group from Anacostia High School participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition. (Jahi Chikwendiu - Washington Post) 
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Endeavour, part of the retiring shuttle fleet, rolls to the launch pad in Florida. NASA will also launch crafts to aid the study of sea salinity, the sun and aerosols. (Matt Stroshane / Getty Images / January 6, 2010)
An adult entertainer dances at the 2010 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nev., Friday Dec. 8, 2010. It's no accident that each year as the Consumer Electronics Show winds down in Las Vegas, the Adult Entertainment Expo heats up. (Zuma Press/Newscom)
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Photo: Steve Ballmer shows off a slate PC during his opening keynote at CES 2010. (Credit: James Martin/CNET)